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BirdOPrey5 02-12-2019 01:26 PM
Are you certain you deleted (or renamed) register.php and didn't make a copy of it under a new name? If register.php still exists it will work even if you aslo have a page like dshsah23h2.php to register on.

BirdOPrey5 02-12-2019 01:28 PM
You may want to disable registration completely and use my "Really Fast Registration" mod in its place, that will be a significant change for the spam bots to overcome. Only downside is registration needs to be very basic, no custom questions.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=301283

Scalemotorcars 02-12-2019 01:42 PM
Wow, thanks for the fast response.

Im sure its changed. I used a password generator with numbers, letters, uppercase, and lowercase to get about a 14 character random URL then renamed the old one via FTP. Register.php just 404's now.

Do you think there is any chance the cache in the spambot is till allowing it access? Long shot but maybe.

As for the quick registration, I'm concerned it will not work with my spam plugin. Like I said it catches 99.9 of the bots. All I'm trying to accomplish now is to get the bots off the server. Hitting it every few seconds is really adding to my load.

BirdOPrey5 02-12-2019 04:51 PM
I don't know... Is there at least a temporary delay when you rename the registration page before the spam registrations start again? If not I wonder if it is possible there is a backdoor on your forum being exploited for registrations. One way to check would be to turn off registrations for a bit and confirm no new people register.

Scalemotorcars 02-12-2019 06:13 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5 (Post 2598458)
I don't know... Is there at least a temporary delay when you rename the registration page before the spam registrations start again? If not I wonder if it is possible there is a backdoor on your forum being exploited for registrations. One way to check would be to turn off registrations for a bit and confirm no new people register.

It was about a 4 hour delay but that's a good ideal I'm going to try turning it off the rest of today and see what happens.

I'll post back.

Scalemotorcars 02-12-2019 09:01 PM
So far no new attempts to register when New Registration is turned off so I guess that's good news.

Is there a way to hide/spoof the url that's displayed for this? A URL rewrite so they can't just copy what's displayed in the browser and plug in the new URL into the bot.

Scalemotorcars 02-13-2019 03:24 PM
I just wanted to add that this mod is helping allot actually. I was being hit with spambots every few seconds all day every day trying to register. So far after a few days Im down to about 100 a day. That's a big change, thanks.

Still, it would be nice to be able to hide the URL somehow. I'm sure it can be done but I'm no wiz with htaccess so maybe someone would be willing to take up the challenge.

BirdOPrey5 02-14-2019 11:15 AM
I can't think of anyway to hide a URL that it would still work.

In Omnibus 02-14-2019 12:35 PM
You might want to try blocking bots by user agent at the server level.

Hostboard 03-30-2020 01:43 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scalemotorcars (Post 2598466)
I just wanted to add that this mod is helping allot actually. I was being hit with spambots every few seconds all day every day trying to register. So far after a few days Im down to about 100 a day. That's a big change, thanks.

Still, it would be nice to be able to hide the URL somehow. I'm sure it can be done but I'm no wiz with htaccess so maybe someone would be willing to take up the challenge.
Here is an example on how you can achieve this:

Code:
<html>
<head>
 <Title>Hide the URL from Address bar</title>
</head>
<body>
 <a href="http://www.google.com">Normal Link</a>
 <a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="location.href='http://www.google.com'">Hide Link</a>
</body>
</html>


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